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MSI made a limited edition liquid-cooled GeForce GTX 1080 to celebrate its 30th anniversary

By Koh Wanzi - on 15 Sep 2016, 10:45am

MSI made a limited edition liquid-cooled GeForce GTX 1080 to celebrate its 30th anniversary

Image Source: MSI

MSI is celebrating its 30th year in making PC hardware. To commemorate the occasion, the company is releasing a limited edition of the GeForce GTX 1080 in collaboration EK Water Blocks. The card features a full-cover acetal top water block that’s hooked up to a custom 120mm version of the EK-XLC Predator all-in-one cooler.

This isn’t the first time the two companies have worked together. For instance, there’s the MSI GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 Sea Hawk EK X cards that ship with EKWB water blocks pre-installed.

The limited edition card features MSI and EKWB logos on the face of its block, both of which are backlit by RGB LEDs that can be customized using the MSI Gaming App. The base of the water block is also made of nickel-plated electrolytic copper, similar to most of EKWB’s recent products.

Other aesthetic flourishes include a silk-screened MSI Dragon on the backplate and polished stainless steel highlights.

Image Source: MSI

That said, the block also functions more or less in line with EKWB’s standard offerings, and channels directly above the GPU, VRMs, and memory serve to keep the hotter components running as cool as possible.

The cooler in question is a 120mm version of EKWB’s EK-XLC Predator, which the company developed specially for MSI’s anniversary edition card. The AIO cooler is not available to buy separately.

Strangely enough, the card isn’t overclocked that aggressively out of the box, with just a 1,721MHz base clock and 1,860MHz boost clock in OC mode.

However, MSI hasn’t yet announced a price for the card, or provided details on just how many pieces it will be making available. Of course, we fully expect it to cost quite a bit more than MSI’s existing cards.

Source: EKWB, MSI

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